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bodikin

noun

Etymology

From body + -kin.

  1. derived from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake, observe”
  2. inherited from *bodag✻ — “body, trunk”
  3. inherited from bodiġ
  4. inherited from body
  5. suffixed as bodikin — “body + kin”

Definitions

  1. A small body

    A small body; forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikins".

    • Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

  2. Alternative form of bodkin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA